Abstract—Extensive work has been devoted to private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining. To protect user privacy from search engines, however, most current a...
Shaozhi Ye, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Raju Pandey, Hao Ch...
Geographical information retrieval (GIR) can benefit from context information to adapt the results to a user’s current situation and personal preferences. In this respect, seman...
This paper analyses reported difficulties in spatial data retrieval from Internet portals, based on results from an empirical survey. The analysis reveals the problems which cause ...
Abstract. Relational database systems are becoming increasingly popular in the scientific community to support the interactive exploration of large volumes of data. In this scenar...
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...